28 mins later.....my friends left the auditorium

Rating: 3/10 (4 November 2002)

Oh Danny Boyle - in a week of seeing a fine Aussie movie (Lantana), a great French movie (L'Apartament) and - damn it - a kick ass US movie (Living in Oblivion) all made on modest budgets, we have 28 Days later.
Where to start - OK, the first 10 mins have some great shots of an empty London. What a fine city we live in and what a great place it could be to make movies.
Then it slowly falls apart as you realise there's no plot, no real characters, no soul, little style - and that DV doesn't work that well on a big screen.
I stuck around out of morbid interest, my friends left.
If you need a low budget Brit Shlock movie, Dog Soldiers is a much tighter enterprise altogether.